Battlefield 2042

On my Xbox One X the only way to get into a game is by unplugging all USB devices from console,get into a game and plug my mixamp back in and it disconnects the controller until i plug it back out....uninstalled and hoping for an EA trial around launch instead

You can turn most of it off and you can increase the opacity of the points. But the text size and colour (light turquoise when most back grounds are white) are very difficult to read for me.

It was always a bit of a joke when you'd have 1 guy and then suddenly his whole squad would spawn on him, with the osprey you've that times 100 doubled down with the squad spawns. Every point is pretty much being defended or attacked at the same time except for maybe the tower which can be somewhat defended.

I don't have issue with seeing the difference between allies or enemies due to the UI but it's still stupid that we've got 2 teams of clones and even as they expand it it's mostly going to be the same character that get's chosen by the mass of random for whatever the basic bitch ability is.

The lack of classes is terrible, people used to be forced to pick and choose and then maybe accidentally be forced to play that role somewhat.

Got so close to the Tornado hitting the map while I was playing tonight.

It was on the horizon but the other team died before it hit. Have had two space rocket launches but no space rocket explosions yet.

Has anyone had a tornado hit while playing yet?

I don't know what was wrong with having two different sides that had two different sets of weapons.

It doubled the longevity as you had to skill up both sides and 4 classes on each. Kept you going for years.

My hope is, that hazard mode is very squad and class focused and portal will allow us to build the game modes with the separate factions.

So they felt the main multiplayer needed something a bit different.

For me it goes way beyond being buggy and the horrible performance - the core game is just plain bad.

The graphics are just OK, but the sound design is a serious step back from other games, the specialist system is a nightmare and has killed teamwork, squad play and general cohesion stone dead. Not to mention the extreme difficulty in telling friend and foe, and tons of clones running around.

There's also a really weird scaling thing going on where guys that are 20 metres away look like they're 60m away. I don't know what they've done there, I think they're literally made the characters way smaller than in previous BF games for some reason.

The guns are really poorly thought out, the sniper is utterly useless with comical drop off after short distances...literally the DMR has less drop off and better range.

There are tons more things, including the fact that a beta one month from launch has broken spotting, no chat, no commo rose, etc, as well. Honestly it's a mess. It doesn't feel like Battlefield, it feels like some Free2Play knockoff product of Battlefield/Warzone.

And then there are the bugs, I can live with a few bugs but there are some huge ones for a game set to be released next month. Bodies floating in mid air, teleportation, disppearing vehicles, disappearing models, no audio cues for tons of basic stuff..... a mountain of really glaringly blatant bugs.

I've been disappointed by BF games in the past, but this is the first time I've actively thought a BF game was downright bad. Even going back to BFV afterwards, whatever you think about that game overall, it has fantastic gunplay, movement and audio/visual is top notch.

Unless the final game is radically different from the game I fear DICE are heading towards a collossal flop. I honestly am shocked by how rough of a state the beta is in, a month out - felt like playing an early alpha build at best.

Definitely becomes Meh as time goes on

But I think it's the Portal mode that really interests me and the other smaller squad based games. So still hopeful.

They seem to have learned very little from BFV and what happens when you try to make a game that is geared primarily to players of other games, as opposed to focusing primarily on your actual core fanbase.

I'm not saying 2042 can't be fun, but it's shaping up to be a jack of all trades but master of none.

I'd like to be wrong but given the atrociously rough state of the beta and the fact that was the best they could give us a month out, I have very little hope the launch will be anything other than BF4 again.

Ideally they would do what 343 did with Halo and just delay it - that decision practically saved the game as we've seen in the recent playtests - but I doubt that will happen either.

Dice have gained a really bad reputation for releasing games in rough state and then eventually making them the games they should have been at launch - BF4, BFV, Battlefront 2, etc. It's really not doing them any favors.

I really find it hard to understand how they knocked it out of the park with BF1, biggest seller of the franchise, and then have been making a mess of BFV and now BF2042.

Sounds like just a lot of passing the blame to EA, and claiming it's COD influences. I don't see any COD influences in the **** ups they made, COD just getting brought up as it's BF fans personal boogeyman. They canned BFV early to move people giving them an extra year, and then kept moving other studios over to assist.

They could have easily had as many premium season pass filled specialist as they wanted and still kept the classic class system, the most common rumour previously was that the specialist were that just that specialist for each of the classes with an additional aspect to them.

Disappointingly little details on that, but first glance makes it seem more like a limited time mode in Warzone than escape from tarkov.

No reference to loot or losing gear, etc, it could be a trailer for anything really, and while the production values of the trailer cant be argued with, nothing I saw in the beta has instilled any sort of confidence in this mode either.

Just thinking how they really should have left classes in this game. You pick your class, then after you rack up 2500 points in game you get to spawn as a specialist for that class. When you die as a specialist you have to rack up another 2500 to be a specialist again.